Open Road Summer by Emery Lord Pages : 342 Genre : YA, contemporary fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only...

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour Pages : 307 Genre : YA, contemporary fiction Stand alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : A wunderkind young set designer, Emi has already started to find her way in the competitive Hollywood film world. Emi is a film buff and a true romantic, but her real-life relationships are a mess. She has desperately gone back to the same girl too many times to mention. But then a mysterious letter from...

What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick Pages : 416 Genre : YA, contemporary fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : Gwen Castle’s Biggest Mistake Ever, Cassidy Somers, is slumming it as a yard boy on her Nantucket-esque island this summer. He’s a rich kid from across the bridge in Stony Bay, and she hails from a family of fishermen and housecleaners who keep the island’s summer people...

Dangerous Girls by Abigail Haas Pages : 400 Genre : YA, Psychological thriller Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : It’s Spring Break of senior year. Anna, her boyfriend Tate, her best friend Elise, and a few other close friends are off to a debaucherous trip to Aruba that promises to be the time of their lives. But when Elise is found brutally murdered, Anna finds herself trapped in a country not her own, fighting...

Thirty Sunsets by Christine Hurley Deriso Pages : 240 Genre : YA, Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : To Forrest Shephard, getting away to the family’s beach house with her parents and her brother, Brian, is the best part of every summer. Until this year, when her mother invites Brian’s obnoxious girlfriend, Olivia, to join them. Suddenly, Forrest’s relaxing vacation becomes a mission to verify...

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Pages : 552 Genre : Historical Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Pages : 552 Genre : Historical Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 5/5 About the Book  : It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her...

The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel Pages : 319 Genre : YA, Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : Some sixteen-year-olds babysit for extra cash. Some work at the mall. Becca Williamson breaks up couples. Becca knows from experience the damage that love can do. After all, it was so-called love that turned Huxley from her childhood best friend into a social-world dictator, and love that left Becca’s older sister...